Does Windows kill the "bootability" other secondary hard drives it finds with the same OS on?
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Does Windows kill the "bootability" other secondary hard drives it finds with the same OS on? Just I had a old machine with Windows 95 OSR2 on, I then upgraded the HD, installed the same copy of Windows on, and used the only bootable hard drive as a secondary, to transfer stuff over, and as a backup for important stuff. Then got a new machine. But now I've come to reuse my old machine for the odd bit of internet access, I've put the original HD back in, but I get the message "drive is not bootable" (or words to that effect). I dont recall deleting any part of Windows on the old HD, but it was all a while ago, so did Windows on the newer HD kill it? If so, do all versions of Windows do this? and do they just kill the same version of Windows with the same serial number? or do they kill the same version of Windows with any serial number? Or even kill any version of windows with any serial number on a secondary HD? Hope that all made sense :) Thanks |
Does Windows kill the "bootability" other secondary hard drives it finds with the same OS on? Just I had a old machine with Windows 95 OSR2 on, I then upgraded the HD, installed the same copy of Windows on, and used the only bootable hard drive as a secondary, to transfer stuff over, and as a backup for important stuff. Then got a new machine. But now I've come to reuse my old machine for the odd bit of internet access, I've put the original HD back in, but I get the message "drive is not bootable" (or words to that effect). I dont recall deleting any part of Windows on the old HD, but it was all a while ago, so did Windows on the newer HD kill it? If so, do all versions of Windows do this? and do they just kill the same version of Windows with the same serial number? or do they kill the same version of Windows with any serial number? Or even kill any version of windows with any serial number on a secondary HD? Not sure if all versions do, but up to 98se all msdos systems I know of will "kill" the ability to boot of a hard drive if you install it as a second drive in any computer and then reinstall it as the "c" drive. The problem is easy to cure. Install a bootable floppy and run the Fdisk program . Be careful and go to the place where it asks you if you want to set Active Partition. By doing this you will then be able to boot off the drive. If the partition is not Active then all the data will still be on the drve, you just can not boot off of it. |
"Kb" wrote in message ... Hi, Does Windows kill the "bootability" other secondary hard drives it finds with the same OS on? Windows 2000 and XP require the first sector of any boot drive to be available in a file. For example, if you have a Linux partition and are using the Win 2k boot menu to start it, you need to dump the first 512 bytes of the Linux boot drive to a file ("bootsec.lnx" for example) and then copy it to the drive with Win2k on it. You then edit the BOOT.INI file to add Linux to the boot menu and reference the bootsec.lnx file. I know this isn't detailed, but should help. |
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:25:16 +0100, Kb wrote:
thanks guys |
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